Improvement in clothes-pins



' waited gtig @met @Wine oRRr's A. BISHOP or. ourense, ILLINOIS.

Letters Pdtent`No./112,315, dated March 7, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-PINS.

The `Schedule referred to in `these :Letters Patent and making part of the'sam.

` I, OBRIS A. BISHQP, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have-invented certain I1nproveniente inV Clothes-Pins and I do hereby declare that the `following is a. full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and the letters and figures of reference markedthereon, which form part ot' this specification,

Figure l is an end view of my invention, and

Figure 2 a. sideview of V'the same. y i Like letters of reference mede use oi' in the several figures indicate like parts.

L General hDescription.

l, '.lhis .invention relates tothet class of clamps or clothes-.pins made from a.coiled Wire bearing two rollers opposed one to the other, :und 'made to press together by the spring of Vthe wire; and

Itconsists of a noyel lconstruction and arrangement of the prts, as will presently more at length appear.

AA is the coil of spring-wire. v

a a are the ends of the Wire, which are bent at an angle tothe coil and extend downward. After passing4 through the rollers b bsquarely these ends a a/ Aare brought up again to verv neer the coil A and cut of which loops carry the rollers.

By 'this construction the rollers are held from slipoi, so that each end forms a. triangnler loop, the bases ping 'offthe wire, and the pin is made much more strong and durable. Y

c is a. loop or ring, made of a bitof wire, passed around the coil between the ends a ai, and it serves to secure i said coil and ends from being sprung laterally apart, a. thing likely' to occur in the ordinary clothes-pin of this kind, and which is va. great disadvantage thereto. The employment of this ring or loop makes the'pinl rigidly resist lateral displacement. .I do not broadly claim a. `clothes-pin Vconstructed of a coiled Wire bearing rollers, 'for this, I am aware, is not new.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

. The clothes-pin, constructedI as described, having the ends a a bent into 'triangular loops, carrying the rollers b b, and having the ring c passed around the coil A, for the purposes specified. 1

v y ,-ORRIS A. BISHOP.

Witnesses:

JN0. W. MUNDAY, H. F. BRUNs. 

